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Fairytale of New York

Certain Songs #739: The Pogues – “Fairytale of New York”

December 24, 2016 by Jim Connelly

the-pogues-fairytale-of-new-york Album: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Year: 1987

I’m sure that when I bought If I Should Fall From Grace With God I knew that “Fairytale of New York” had been a huge hit single in the U.K., though that’s not the reason I bought the album. I bought it because it was the new Pogues album, and “Fairytale of New York” was just one of several songs I loved on it.

And one thing’s for sure: I really didn’t think of “Fairytale of New York” as a Christmas song, but rather just another of Shane MacGowan’s tales of scumbags and maggots which just happened to be set on Christmas Eve. In the drunk tank.

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